Senator Rashidi Ladoja, Fomer Governor Oyo State
FORMER governor of Oyo State and National Leader of Accord Party, Senator Rashidi Ladoja on Tuesday disclosed that powerful team tagged "third force" will uproot Governor Abiola Ajimobi during next election, just as he said that only the party will decide whether he will contest or not.
Apparently reacting to the Senator Ajimobi's comment that the progressives would rule the pacesetter state for the next 50years telling those he called reactionary elements to bury their amibitions, his cousin and Accord Party leader said the discussions were ongoing by a group of people, oriented politicians who would, during the ballot vote out the incumbent from office.
Speaking while participating on a Private Radio programme, Splash FM, "Bulls Eye" monitored by our correspondent in Ibadan, the former governor who could not say categorically if he would contest the 2015 governorship election in the state, stressed that "if the party says I should contest I will not refuse it." "God has not yet given me the certificate that I will be alive by 2015 so I can’t talk about contesting now. The party shall decide who to contest the next election some months to the election. If the party decides I should contest I will not refuse," he said.
Ladoja who said he was not in any personal battle with his cousin, said the
differences were on political issues on how the interest of the masses should be uppermost and form the core of any government policy, describing the newly built shops as medicine after death "That is not true, there is no battle between Ladoja and Ajimobi. I have nothing personal against my junior brother but we may have differences on political issues.
We believe that governance must have human face but they believe governance must be done with steal and iron hand and concrete.
"We feel that we are right and he believes that he is right. That does not make us enemies. Are you saying that if you build bridges it should not be used by the people or when you build and widen roads, people must die of hunger? We said it is good to widen roads and build bridges but not at the expense of the people," Ladoja argued.
On the contentious Mokola Bridge, Ladoja challenged the government to tell the people of the state the true amount spent in the construction of the bridge wondering why more money should be paid for something of less width, length and quality when compared with that constructed in Ogun state.
He disclosed that talks between Accord and former governor Adebayo Alao-Akala were still ongoing, adding that nobody should underrate the strength of Accord Party as it was now spread across the state.
"The only thing is that he (Akala) wanted us to work together and we are still discussing. The committee will bring their report and we shall see to it. Akala may be stronger in Oke-Ogun and Ogbomoso during last election and you say Accord in Ibadan. But now we are now radiating outside Ibadan and we now have presence in every part of the state," he explained.